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Title: Inscriptions on head-stones
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Churchyard epitaph, warning the living that they too must die. Collective
title shared with BCMSV 1093-5.
Title: [Inscriptions on head-stones]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Epitaph, warning the living that they too must die. Collective title shared
with BCMSV 1092, 1094-5.
Title: [Inscriptions on head-stones]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1714 ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Epitaph, asserting victory over death; possibly for a man called Carnel,
wittily punning on his name (see Crum). Collective title shared with BCMSV
1092-3, 1095.
Title: [Inscription on head-stones]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- or 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Doggerel epitaph warning the living that they too must die. Collective title
shared with BCMSV 1092-4
Title: On the calves-head-clubb, Jan 30, 1734
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1734 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 13
Contents: Comparing the Whigs of the Calves Head Club with the Roundheads who beheaded
Charles I, suggesting that they in turn wish to overthrow George II
Title: Perseus carieth away the head of Medusa with Pegasus
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Perseus's beheading of the gorgon Medusa and his acquisition of Pegasus; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, IV
Title: Meleager gives Atalanta the hide and head of the bore which he slew
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Meleager's presentation of the head and hide of the boar to Atalanta, and his slaying of two other hunters; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, VIII
Title: Inscription under the head of Bishop Fisher prefixed to his life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1655 ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Witty verses on John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, apparently accompanying a
portrait in a biography of him (Thomas Bayly's?)
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
Title: On Polemo & Crates (bur'yd together)
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Epitaph on the Greek philosophers Polemon and Crates, successively heads of
the Academy
Title: On the Scotch Pavement
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176-?
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: A suggestion that the best way to pave London's streets would be with Scottish heads.